Alan Knott
Alan Philip Eric Knott
Born: 9 April 1946, Belvedere, Kent
Major Teams: Kent, Tasmania, England.
Known As: Alan Knott
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Off Break
Other: Wicket-Keeper
Test Debut: England v Pakistan at Nottingham, 2nd Test, 1967
Last Test: England v Australia at The Oval, 6th Test, 1981
ODI Debut: England v Australia at Melbourne, One-off ODI, 1970/71
Last ODI: England v Australia at The Oval, Prudential Trophy, 1977
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1970
Tasmania First-Class Career Span: 1969-70
Career Statistics:
TESTS
(career)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 95 149 15 4389 135 32.75 5 30 250 19
O M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling - - - - - - - - - -
ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS
(career)
M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 20 14 4 200 50 20.00 80.97 0 1 15 1
O M R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ
Bowling - - - - - - - - - -
FIRST-CLASS
(career: 1964 - 1985)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 511 745 134 18105 156 29.63 17 97 1211 133
Balls R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 104 87 2 43.50 1-5 0 0 52.0 5.01
LIST A LIMITED OVERS
(career: 1965 - 1985)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 316 245 44 3249 65 16.16 0 6 342 53
O M R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ
Bowling - - - - - - - - - -
- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.
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In addition to being one of England's great wicket-keepers, Alan Knott can
also lay claim to being one of his country's finest post-war all-rounders.
For most of the decade between 1967 and 1977 he was an automatic England
choice, as much for his ability to score runs under pressure as for his
wonderfully athletic performances behind the stumps. Time and again Knott
arrived at the crease with England looking down the barrel, and his
customary response was to bat with impudence, aggression, and no little
style. He scored five hundreds and 30 fifties for England. Probably his most
memorable (and also his highest) international innings was in 1977, when he
came in at 82 for 5 to make 135 against Greg Chappell's Australians at Trent
Bridge.
The last of Kent's great wicket-keeping trio of the 20th century - the
two others being Les Ames and Godfrey Evans - Knott had many idiosyncrasies,
amongst them his constant bending and stretching exercises between
deliveries. While some dismissed these as faddish, there were no complaints
from the bowlers - any edges within reachable distance (and some apparently
beyond) were gleefully snapped up. Knott formed a legendary partnership for
England with his Kent colleague Derek Underwood. The catch he took off
Underwood at The Oval in 1971 to dismiss India's Dilip Sardesai was
breathtaking - one-handed, high to Knott's right and off a sharply-turning
delivery.
Knott's England career was interrupted in 1977 when he joined Kerry
Packer, but he was then twice recalled, more memorably against Australia in
1981 when he scored a sparkling half century to follow Ian Botham's great
118 at Old Trafford, and ended the series - and his Test career - with a
match-saving, unbeaten innings of 70 at The Oval. He then joined Graham
Gooch's rebel tour of South Africa. He continued to play for Kent
throughout, eventually retiring from first-class cricket in 1986. (Stephen
Lamb, Copyright CricInfo 2001)
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